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== Variations and synonyms == The practice has various names, including: {{div col}} * camelBack (or camel-back) notation<ref>[http://www2.tech.purdue.edu/cit/Courses/CPT355/C_Sharp_Coding_Standards_and_Guidelines.asp C# Coding Standards and Guidelines] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080411055228/http://www2.tech.purdue.edu/cit/Courses/CPT355/C_Sharp_Coding_Standards_and_Guidelines.asp |date=11 April 2008 }} at [[Purdue University]] College of Technology</ref> or CamelCaps<ref>{{cite web|url=http://everything2.com/title/CamelCase |title=CamelCase@Everything2.com |website=Everything2.com |access-date=4 June 2010}}</ref> * camel case or CamelCase * CapitalizedWords or CapWords for upper camel case in [[Python (programming language)|Python]]<ref name="python">[http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ Style Guide for Python Code] at [https://www.python.org www.python.org]</ref> * compoundNames<ref name="compoundNames">{{cite newsgroup | last=Feldman|first=Ian | title = compoundNames | date = 29 March 1990 | newsgroup = alt.folklore.computers |message-id=3230@draken.nada.kth.se | url=https://groups.google.com/group/alt.folklore.computers/browse_thread/thread/6099191f2c4e0984/21f332e5b813313e?#21f332e5b813313e}}</ref> * Embedded caps (or embedded capitals)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://issues.appfuse.org/browse/APF-1088 |title=[#APF-1088] If class name has embedded capitals, AppGen code fails UI tests and generated hyperlinks are incorrect. β AppFuse JIRA |website=Issues.appfuse.org |access-date=4 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170625073321/http://issues.appfuse.org/browse/APF-1088 |archive-date=25 June 2017 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> * HumpBack (or hump-back) notation<ref>[http://www.shiningstar.net/articles/articles/standards/namingconventions.asp ASP Naming Conventions] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090408080754/http://www.shiningstar.net/articles/articles/standards/namingconventions.asp |date=8 April 2009 }}, by Nannette Thacker (05/01/1999)</ref> * InterCaps or intercapping<ref>{{Cite book|editor1-last=Iverson|editor1-first=Cheryl|editor2-last=Christiansen|editor2-first=Stacy|editor3-last=Flanagin|editor3-first=Annette|editor4-last=Fontanarosa|editor4-first=Phil B.|editor5-last=Glass|editor5-first=Richard M.|editor6-last=Gregoline|editor6-first=Brenda|editor7-last=Lurie|editor7-first=Stephen J.|editor8-last=Meyer|editor8-first=Harriet S.|editor9-last=Winker|editor9-first=Margaret A.|editor10-last=Young|editor10-first=Rozanne K.|title=AMA Manual of Style|edition=10th|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford, Oxfordshire|year=2007|isbn=978-0-19-517633-9|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/amamanualofstyle0000unse}}</ref> (abbreviation of ''Internal Capitalization''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://wps.ablongman.com/long_hult_bnch_4/63/16207/4149058.cw/content/index.html |title=The Brief New Century Handbook β Rules for internal capitalization |publisher=[[Pearson Education]] |first1=Christine A. |last1=Hult |first2=Thomas N. |last2=Huckin |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120407020530/http://wps.ablongman.com/long_hult_bnch_4/63/16207/4149058.cw/content/index.html |archive-date=7 April 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>) * [[:wikt:medial capital|medial capitals]], recommended by the [[Oxford English Dictionary]]<ref>{{cite web |title=What is the name for a word containing two capital letters (like WordPad)? |url=http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/medial?view=uk |website=AskOxford |publisher=Internet Archive |access-date=12 June 2022 |archive-date=25 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081025021810/http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/medial?view=uk |url-status=dead }}</ref> * mixedCase for lower camel case in Python<ref name="python" /> * PascalCase for upper camel case<ref>{{cite web |url=https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/brada/history-around-pascal-casing-and-camel-casing |title=Brad Abrams: History around Pascal Casing and Camel Casing |website=learn.microsoft.com |date=3 February 2004 |access-date=21 October 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PascalCase |title=Pascal Case |website=C2.com |date=27 September 2012 |access-date=4 January 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x2dbyw72(vs.71).aspx |title=NET Framework General Reference Capitalization Styles |website=[[MSDN2]] |date=17 November 2006 |access-date=4 January 2014}}</ref> (after the [[Pascal (programming language)|Pascal programming language]]) * [[Smalltalk]] case * WikiWord<ref name="WikiWord used by [[TWiki]]">{{cite web |url=http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/WikiWord |title=WikiWord |website=Twiki.org |access-date=4 June 2010 |archive-date=19 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619042605/http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/WikiWord |url-status=dead }}</ref> or WikiCase<ref name="WikiCase mentioned in [[WikiWikiWeb]]">{{cite web|url=http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiCase |title=Wiki Case |website=C2.com |date=8 February 2010 |access-date=4 June 2010}}</ref> (especially in older [[wiki]]s) {{div col end}}
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